Headlines - Thursday October 20

Obama Has Awlaki's 16-Yr-Old Son, Friends Killed at Dinner - 16-Year-Old US Citizen, Friends Were Eating Dinner When Missile Landed   

 

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GM Crops Promote Superweeds, Food Insecurity and Pesticides, say NGOs

 

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 Tea Party Nation Urges Businesses To Stop Hiring People In Order To Bring Down President Obama

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America's still waiting for all that cash to 'trickle down'

Citigroup earnings rise 74 percent, to $3.8 bln (AP)

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I keep hearing how well behaved the Tea Partiers were compared to Occupy Wall Street, what with their polite and well mannered rallies and all. They are all over the place, getting face time as the supposedly civilized face of American protest, recalling the glory days of their "peaceful" movement.

They were anything but civilized. I'm just going to re-run this one again because I think it says everything that needs to be said.

 

Also, too, there was this. And just this past month at the GOP debates they've been cheering for executions, booing active duty soldiers, applauding the uninsured dying and, last night, clapping wildly for the comment "it's your own fault" if you don't have a job.

Humans are often not nice, and neither side in the political/cultural divide has a monopoly on goodness. But I really don't want to hear any more nonsense about how "decent" the Tea partiers were in contrast to the Occupy Wall Streeters. Many of them behave very badly, very often and they have absolutely no room to be judgmental.

 

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Jonathan Turley: Gingrich: You Cannot Trust Politicians Who Do Not Pray

 

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"One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal…but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. This is special and it needs to be seen as special." - Rick Santorum, pledging to defund all federal contraception programs.

SHORTER RICK SANTORUM: More AIDS and unwanted babies for everybody! Praise! Glory!

 

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Technically this is just an abortion amendment attached to separate bill which has nothing to do with abortion, but that effectively turns it into an abortion bill in my book.

Anti-choice Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just filed an anti-choice amendment to a bill related to agriculture, transportation, housing, and other programs. The DeMint amendment could bar discussion of abortion over the Internet and through videoconferencing, even if a woman's health is at risk and if this kind of communication with her doctor is her best option to receive care.

Under this amendment, women would need a separate, segregated Internet just for talking about abortion care with their doctors.

What could possibly be the justification for this? What will this accomplish? I honestly have no idea. From where I'm sitting, it's just a mean-spirited trampling of basic rights.

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You know how Republicans are always telling the rest of us that we need to get by without federal assistance, to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, to pay our own way, and to just generally be self-sufficient? Well when it comes to throwing parties, forget all that!

Republicans are helping themselves to $18 million of the public dole for party planning for their 2012 national convention in Tampa. Let the good times roll!

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The Kenyan Usurper Hawaiian Devil Baby President Obama has raked in more Wall Street money than all of his GOP rivals combined. (WaPo)

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This is Why They Hate You and Want You to Die

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According to reports, Libyan dictator Moammar Gadaffi has been captured and/or killed after rebels found him "hiding in a hole" in his hometown of Sirte, which the fighters captured today. The National Transitional Council told Reuters that Gadhafi died of wounds suffered in battle; the White House is currently seeking to confirm reports.

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Pop band Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine is not pleased with Fox News using his music, Tweeting yesterday, "Dear Fox News, don't play our music on your evil f****** channel ever again. Thank you." Indeed, Fox and Friends had used one of the band's songs Monday.

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Emergency Committee For Israel Board Member Calls Palestinians 'Savages,' 'Unmanned Animals,' 'Food For Sharks'

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Whoever Printed This Sign Should Be Given A Medal

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Some misguided wingnut (whoops, that's a redunderancy there!) thought that the most critical entertainment items to mail all the way overseas to a bunch of U.S. troops stationed in Bumblefuck, Afghanistan were a couple boxes of crazed loofah-humper Bill O'Reilly's book Pinheads and Patriots, presumably on the assumption that soldiers would enjoy masturbating to O'Reilly's noxious screeds just as much as right-wing idiots. Wrong! Instead, the soldiers did the sensible thing and set them on fire. READ MORE »